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Title: Maternal Employment and Adolescent Self-Care
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Lopoo, Leonard M. |
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Maternal Employment and Adolescent Self-Care Presented: Boston, MA, Population Association of America Meetings, April 2004 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Child Care; Child Self-Administered Supplement (CSAS); Family Income; Maternal Employment; Modeling, Fixed Effects Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The author uses the National Educational Longitudinal Survey of 1988 supplemented by the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth - 1979 to estimate the relationship between maternal employment and the likelihood of adolescent self-care. Unlike prior research, the author employs a variety of fixed effects models to account for omitted variables that may be related to maternal employment and adolescent self-care. Findings suggest that the adolescents of mothers who work full-time spend an additional 43 minutes per week in self-care compared to mothers who work part-time. Further, a standard deviation increase in the number of weeks a mother works during the year increases the probability that her child will be unsupervised by 31 percent. These effects are not constant across socio-economic groups: affluent families have strong effects, while the relationship is more tenuous among low-income families. This finding has important implications for pro-work social welfare policies in the U.S. |
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Bibliography Citation
Lopoo, Leonard M. "Maternal Employment and Adolescent Self-Care." Presented: Boston, MA, Population Association of America Meetings, April 2004. |